Confession: I was in my early 30s before I realised it was "cold calling" or "cold emailing" instead of "code calling/emailing".
You know, because a piece of code automated the process. 🤣
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Yesterday was new bike day. I love new bike day! 🏍️
FFS. Do I need to find a new email client as well as a browser now too?
🤦🏼♂️ #Thunderbird #Mozilla
Couple frustrations that I need to work through with #Vivaldi:
When I switch Gnome (Ubuntu) to dark mode in the evening, Vivaldi doesn't switch to a dark theme. Firefox does, so I'd assume this is a Vivaldi issue. 🤷🏻♂️
Some settings aren't synced between devices. Such as search engine choice, what the address bar displays when typing etc. This should be a one off thing as I get setup, but it's frustrating none the less, and things I'll need to re-do every time I get a new device.
I read this post about #Vivaldi business model, quickly realised they're the good guys, switched, and donated. There's some wonkiness compared to #Firefox, but I'll make it work.
I just had the #LiquidGlass update forced upon my corporate iPhone and it's every bit as shit as everyone says. It's awful!
TF is this, #Synology? Always "fun" when a random app is added to my device without my knowledge.
UNINSTALL
Day 4 of having Flu. While having skin that's sore to the touch is just a barrel of laughs, the best part of the whole thing is:
Jacket on: Surface of the sun
Jacket off: Naked Eskimo
Was thinking about doing one of those year in review posts, but 2025 has been the worst year of my life, and I really don't want to put everyone on a downer. I'll save you all from that.
You know what's really shit? Having the flu while you're on vacation from work...
I can't believe my wife let me do this. I knew there was a reason I married her! 🤣🏍
Had a wonderful day yesterday. We hosted my family; there were lots of laughs, and way too much food. Just wholesome family time. Some tears too, as we all desperately miss my sister, but overall a happy family Christmas.
Today we have my wife's family coming to visit. Christmas is my favourite time of year.
Watched Predator with my oldest son today. He loved it, so we're going to try and work our way through all the Predator and Alien films over the Christmas holidays.
He's a chip off the old block.
One of the most frustrating things about the #Gnome desktop is the lack of continuity with window borders. It seems like every app just does their own thing.
Not sure if that's a thing in other DEs? 🤷🏼♂️
There is no better feeling than the first day of 2 weeks off work. See you in January, work laptop! 🎄
Ah FFS. C'mon, #Mozilla. Can you try and stop effing up #Firefox for 2 damn minutes...
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/mozilla-new-ceo-firefox-ai-browser-strategy
I really want to love #PopOS #Cosmic but there's a bug in the file manager that prevents me from browsing my NAS via SMB. I do that all the time so it's a deal breaker for me. :-(
This just sounds horrendous, but is a perfect example of why you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Especially a basket you don't control.
I hope he gets it sorted out.
Watched the Dungeons & Dragons film with my wife and kids.
Utter, utter dog shit. That is except for last 15 minutes or so. That was just mediocre...
💩
Been waiting for the new version of #PopOS with #Cosmic for what seems like ages. Was very tempted by the beta, but now it's fully released I'm gonna be installing it.
Always loved what the team at System76 put out with Pop.
https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder